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Hastiness

noun
1.
Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness).  Synonyms: haste, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation.
2.
Hasty impulsiveness.





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"Hastiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... of accurately discriminating ideas one from another lies, either in the dulness or faults of the organs of sense; or want of acuteness, exercise, or attention in the understanding; or hastiness and precipitancy, natural to some tempers, I will not here examine: it suffices to take notice, that this is one of the operations that the mind may reflect on and observe in itself. It is of that consequence to its other knowledge, that so far as this ...
— An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I. - MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books I. and II. (of 4) • John Locke


Words linked to "Hastiness" :   precipitancy, speed, abruptness, precipitousness, impulsiveness, precipitance, precipitateness, swiftness, hasty, fastness, suddenness


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